poseycorp helps innovators become great communicators. (Sometimes by sending out helpful stuff in a newsletter.)
ISSUE 49
Always learning, all the time
"If you’re not spending 5 hours per week learning, you’re being irresponsible"
- A headline on Quartz.com in 2018
"Knowledge is the new money," said Michael Simmons in Quartz.
Stephane Kasriel, CEO of Upwork, cites the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a World Economic Forum article: "Thirty five per cent of the skills that workers need — regardless of industry — will
have changed by 2020." The half-life of a job skill is about five years. Gulp.
Here’s Stephane again, "Recognize that you need ongoing training, and realize that you hold the responsibility for your own education. Do that, and you can improve your marketability for years to come."
If we’re going to thrive as the world continues its rapid paroxysms of change, we have to love learning. No one’s going to come tell us what to learn. We can’t expect our teams to just love learning either. We have to create a culture of learning.
M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled, defines love as "The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth." Well, if you replace the word ‘spiritual’ with ‘professional’, you’ve just described
leadership in a learning organization.
When we extend ourselves to help our teams develop new skills and then give them opportunities to use them, they feel seen, fed and encouraged. Everyone has a chance to contribute and thrive.
Daniel Pink’s fantastic TED
talk on motivation says we all want these three things in our work:
Autonomy – the urge to direct our own lives - to learn what we want to learn
Mastery – the desire to learn - to get better and better at something that matters
Purpose – the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves
When you build a professional environment that gives your teams the power to learn autonomously, a path to achieve individual mastery and to find a meaningful sense of purpose, you’ll create a generative, dynamic culture full of learning and sharing in your organization.
When you constantly communicate internally and externally about your learning culture, it will become so powerful that it will radiate out past the walls of your offices and wash over your customers too. In a good way. Everyone wants to be part of a learning organization!
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We're also talking about being a better public speaker:
"That was awesome!" said another enthusiastic media training
client.
If you’d like great results, schedule a conversation with me! It’s easy! Reach me at inquiries@poseycorp.com.
Your business must scale, and you must scale with it. Great communicators create the change they want to see in the world. poseycorp helps innovators build powerful messages and the skill to deliver them so they can break through the noise and be heard! Lisa Poulson, poseycorp’s principal, is expert at helping innovators scale by becoming great communicators.
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